The Christian World and the Creation Museum

Over the past few months since the opening of the Creation Museum, I have noticed something very interesting—not surprising—but very sad at the same time.

The secular world (media, secular institutions, etc) have bombarded AiG and the Creation Museum with requests for interviews—in fact, they still contact us on almost a daily basis.

Now we certainly have had our share of publicity from Christian outlets: American Family Radio, Bott Radio Network, Coral Ridge Ministries, Liberty University, and so on. We do appreciate our friends from these Christian organizations, and various others as well.

However, it is true to say that the secular world has generally shown more interest in the opening of the Creation Museum than much of the Christian world. This hit me again as I read an article in the current Christianity Today.

Keep in mind that in a recent blog I shared that Time magazine put the Creation Museum as one of the 10 biggest religious stories of 2007 and that the satirical Mad Magazine included the Creation Museum in its list of the ‘dumbest people events and things’ of 2007.

Recently Christianity Today published its list of the top 10 religious stories of 2007 (excerpted below*)—and the Creation Museum doesn’t rank a mention. But that is not surprising given that the editorial board of Christianity Today is certainly not known for supporting the literal Genesis position!!

The interesting thing is that, overall, the secular world actually sees the importance of the Creation Museum more than a lot of the Christian world. The secular world views the Museum as a direct assault on secular humanism at its foundation—but much of the Christian world has so compromised with the secular world in this area, that they don’t understand how important the Creation Museum is in that battle for the authority of God’s Word in the culture.

However, despite the reluctance of much of the Christian world to see the Creation Museum for its vital significance, the message is spreading through the Christian community as thousands of people attend the Museum (attendance is at about 290,000 visitors after 7 months!). As those people go back to their churches, Christian organizations, etc., they will begin to put pressure on the top leadership of those organizations—and we are already seeing that happen. The more this pressure is put on, the more the Christian world will have to take notice—and of course, most of all, we want the Christian world to stand on the authority of God’s Word and stand against the evolutionary secular humanism of this age that is destroying church and culture.